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Issues and Elections: The Environment
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  Outside of so-called “green energy”, the environment's been largely ignored in this campaign in favor of the economy and foreign policy. But that doesn’t mean voters don’t care about the environment – We’ll find out what the candidates' platforms say on global warming, air and water quality, and land conservation. Guests
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Does VP candidate believe that humans are the cause of global warming? If not, does she just not think that global warming exists, OR does she think it is caused by something else. Also, why doesn't she believe that polar bears should be on the Endangered Species list. Thank you.
Our "Environment" is synonymous for Creation. If as Americans, we operate under a Judeo/ Christian tenet, then we are here for the purpose of serving and being stewards of nature, the land, air, water, soil, and ecological systems that "managed" themselves for all time before the industrial age created industries to benefit economically from what we call earth's "resources."
We reduce forests to "timber products" and sea life to "fisheries" never giving other living eco-systems their own standing to not be invaded by us. We've even reduce animals to commodities and insect species, rodent species to "pests."
In my view, humans are odd species out as we live in such dis-cord with nature while it is out only real home.I think this happens because of our arrogant and wrong headed interpretation of "dominion" to mean masters, not servants and stewards, mankind places itself above all other living beings and looks at CREATION, the environment, as one huge "resource" for our sole benefit. Hence, the plaguing ecological disasters we have made by reducing living beings and nature to commodities.
Destroying other living beings and nature is forbidden in Jewish Law.
www.vasumurti.org
Good points, there are however many humans, in many different cultures that live with humility as part of nature. This superiority complex you highlight is relatively new and, though dominant in our capitalist society is being actively rejected around the world. Take heart in the people of Ecuador who have a chance to add Inalienable Rights of Nature to their constitution, just one of many new and traditional bright spots.
Sarah Palin, who claims, as so many do, to be "pro-life" obviously stops at considering that other prescious mammals deserve to live. She is a cold blooded trophy hunter who prides herself on blowing the brains and hearts out of moose, bear, and offered a bounty for the arial massacre of wolves.
It's a travesty today that the term, "pro-gun" and "pro-life" can be used side by side to describe platforms.
Humans have elevated themselves to a master status, rather than sevants of life, nature, and the miracle of our environment, another word for CREATION. Palin, like too many so called "Christians," has selected which Christian morals to live by, (although I can't find any she lives by, mercy, compassion, protecting the weak and vulnerable, having love for all God's creatures as the most righteous do)and which to toss away.
We are in the throws of some perverted interpreation of Chrisianity that enables industrial capitalism to turn the entire natural world to "resources" for human benefit.
It's antithetical to the Sermon on the Mount and everything sacred about LIFE.
We are here amidst a miracle of species and living eco-systems humans are desecrating because of our "top of the food chain" hubris.
Here's what the real teachings say:
www.GodsCreaturesMinistry.org
We need to make environmental protection a priority for our energy, trade, industrial, agricultural, transportation, development, and land use policies.
No subsidizing of entrenched oil, coal, and nuclear interests, but aim for carbon free, nuclear free and put our funding where we want to go. A carbon tax to sprearhead a global carbon tax, not cap and trade to create a new speculative commodity.
These ideas and the fact he was an architect of the EPA, Clean Air and Clean Water Acts put Nader at the head of his class on the environment. Nader/Gozalez is now polling at 10% among Ohio independents and on the ballot in 45 states including NH.
Laura, to imply that nuclear energy is benign except for waste when it comes to the environment, you miss mining. There is alot of carbon fuel used in mining and transportation of fuel, plus the environmental concern of water, heavily wasted in the nuclear industry.